Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up
- TOP STORY—4th Cir.: Motor vehicle dealership’s motion to compel arbitration denied
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Updates — What You Need to Know
- EXPERT INSIGHTS—Second Circuit Brings Clarity to Scope of ‘Joint Employer’ Theory in Discrimination Cases
- CONTRACT CLAIMS—2d Cir.: Mediation agreement stating that more formal agreement would follow was binding preliminary agreement
- DISCRIMINATION—DISABILITY—E.D. Wis.: Summary judgment win for VA in employee’s suit for non-accommodation, HWE, and retaliation
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—4th Cir.: District court overlooked Black employee’s allegations suggesting pretext based on different treatment of White employees
- DISCRIMINATION—RACE—W.D. La.: Educator’s motion for partial summary judgment denied in race and retaliation lawsuit
- LABOR—LAYOFFS—D. Haw.: District court won’t review bankruptcy court’s pre-trial orders in WARN Act lawsuit against shuttered airline
- LABOR—PICKETING—S.D.N.Y.: Non-union subcontractor failed to prove union engaged in illegal secondary activity toward business associates
- RETALIATION—M.D. Fla.: Even with new standard of materiality for retaliatory HWE claims, VA employees’ claims fail
- STATE-LAW CLAIMS—W. Va. Sup. Ct.: State’s highest court answers certified question about employer’s liability as ‘person’ under West Virginia Human Rights Act
- TORT CLAIMS—Tex. Sup. Ct.: $6.3M jury verdict for surgeon on defamation claim against hospital unsupported by evidence
- NLRB NEWS—Region 18 director orders union election at Activision Publishing’s Raven Studio in Middleton, Wisconsin
- OFCCP NEWS—Federal contractor will pay $550K to resolve alleged discrimination against female, Black applicants
- STATE LEGISLATION—FLORIDA—Legislation redefining ‘unlawful discrimination,’ rejecting ‘woke indoctrination’ becomes law
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